Agent house
The agent's house is a half-timbered building from the 18th century in the municipality of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .
history
Master tanner Andreas Hüni-Stäubli had the half-timbered house built between 1735 and 1737. It got its name during the time of the Helvetic Republic , when his grandson Andreas Hüni-Burkhard was "Agent national", the community leader. In 1949 it was acquired by Emil Samuel Kern (1914–2014), who ran a doctor's practice in it and, through his many years of collecting activities, made it an example of upscale living culture of the 18th century.
Building description
The gable of the building is directed towards the lake. The masonry ground floor sits on a high basement level built into the hillside, with the two full and one attic storeys in half-timbered construction rising above it. Lukarnen are built into the east and west sides of the roof . The southern gable wall is bricked up to under the ridge. In front of the basement there is a shed built on the lake side, it does not come from the early days.
Living and Porcelain Museum
You enter the ground floor through the main entrance on the western eaves side of the house and you are immediately in a hallway that divides the house across. Emil Samuel Kern built his museum in the northern, lake-side rooms and the converted attic. The other rooms served the Kern couple as an apartment and doctor's office for many years.
The themed rooms, such as the music room, representative room and entrance hall, fully furnished, document the 18th century home decor. They are equipped with a variety of paintings, sculptures and applied arts from the 14th to 19th centuries. The top floor is entirely dedicated to one of the most important private collections of products from the Kilchberg-Schooren porcelain factory . It consists of around 150 statuettes and 400 pieces of crockery.
In 1998 Emil Samuel Kern donated the agent's house with the porcelain collection, including an endowment for maintenance and operation, to the Zurich Homeland Security Foundation. The agent house has been open to the public since April 2000.
Web links
- Website of the living and porcelain museum agent house
- Collection of portrait miniatures by Emil Samuel Kern
Individual evidence
- ↑ NZZ of June 4, 2003: Shards of bygone times
- ↑ Commemoration for a passionate art collector. Retrieved September 25, 2015 .
- ^ Emil S. Kern on his 100th birthday. Retrieved September 25, 2015 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '35.6 " N , 8 ° 36' 2.3" E ; CH1903: 687 947 / 234983